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Topic: Adding some new troops to the legion. (Read 1833 times)

Taking a break from painting to help add some more marines to my legion. I have some extra random garbage parts and decided to kit bash together some CSM guys. Gonna build up an assault Slaanesh themed CSM squad. All I have so far is 3 dudes, but there's a lot of modifications in each one.

Heads are from raptors set, and a shaved down khorne helm.Shoulders just got some spiky helmet horns added to them.Torsos are a mix of regular marines and khorne chests..The arms are regular bits, just reversed for left handed shooters, which was no small effort.The legs are from the fantasy chaos marines set.

I have a pile of failed arm attempts, must've destroyed like a dozen arms before I got a good system going. The real hassle was finding clenched left fists and right handed open palms. A lot of sniping required just for switching gun hands

Sorry shoulda specified. There is no CSM kit (to my current knowledge) that has grasping right hands.

The method I used to get proper right hands was to take the grasping left arms, cut off the thumb, then move it to the other side of the palm, and glue it in place. It makes the new grasping right hand seem alittle off, but with how much of the model you're looking at, people dont notice its slightly gibbled right thumb.

Then all thats left is to rotate the forearm, elbow, wrist and shoulder parts to turn the originally left arm into a right arm. With power armor parts its actually not that hard of a mod.

I'll see if I can get a quick totorial up on my page to show the parts and routine for making left handed shooters.

My only concern with making a left handed shooter is that the bolt ejector is on the right side. If I made some left handed shooters I would follow your example but I'd have to either also model a left side ejector or position it so it wouldn't look like the spent shells aren't slapping my space marine in the face and chest

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Don't try making a unit unkillable. its a waste of time and the dice gods laugh at you for wasting your time. Dedicate a unit to a job and make sure it does it til it's either dead or running.